The Closing Arguments (Mobile as Humbling)
Read this as I was finishing a work-week. And while my mind thinks often on the subject of mobile, sometimes, it takes really real stories of what's being done to help me gather perspective. This was one of those. Here's a snippet:
...She watched as I showed her how the application could download images, and how doctors could make annotations, and add dictations, and I explained how another doctor could open the application across the globe “While on vacation in France, perhaps.” and listen to the dictations and read the annotations. She stared at me in utter disbelief as I went through the images, and turned the application to landscape mode and zoomed in and out. I retold the story of how a retina problem could lead to blindness if not immediately treated, as her young assistant, who had now moved in for a closer look, stared at the iPhone screen...
Read the rest of The Closing Argument at the iPhone BioTech Blog.
Really, there's not much more that I can say from this except to quote what an MMM partner once told me: technology is only relevant when it is personal. Let's make sure that in all our use of mobile, that we are truly keeping God and our hearts in the right place.
Labels: development, gifts, iPhone, medical, mobile, stewardship
posted by Antoine @ 10/28/2009 10:00:00 AM
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Amen. Don't do mobile ministry projects because they are trendy, or "the kids love their iPhones" and we want kids in the pews, or because the big churches are doing them; do it because it can make your church directly relevant in someone's life, and bring Christ to them in a new or different way. Easy to forget nowadays.
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